Colorado State University cooperator, Dr. David Eads, and FORT Research Wildlife Biologist, Dr. Dean Biggins, and colleagues, published a manuscript on the potential importance of droughts in the ecology of plague (Yersinia pestis), an introduced, zoonotic disease that can devastate populations of prairie dogs (Cynomys)and endangered Black-footed Ferrets (Mustela nigripes).

FORT ecologist, Ellis Margolis, spoke with a reporter from the Albuquerque Journal on August 19, 2016 about a new fire history project in the Taos Valley Watersheds, New Mexico. Margolis, Craig Allen, and Collin Haffey from the USGS New Mexico Landscapes Field Station, along with the University of Arizona, are working with the U.S.